Author trains and releases six small models in two days with ML-Intern
What happened
On 8 October 2026, Hugging Face Blog published a first-hand report stating that the author used ML-intern in HuggingChat to train and release six models in two days through natural-language prompts, including a citrus disease VLM, Huggy LoRA, a camera viewpoint LoRA, Doodle-in LoRA, Pocket Rewriter 0.8B/2B and the Agate 4-step distilled model, at a total compute cost of about $103. The report did not disclose the specific training details, data sources or evaluation results of each model, nor explain how the two-day timeframe and the $103 cost were measured. So far this is the only report on the matter, with no follow-up or contradiction with earlier coverage.
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- Hugging Face BlogSelectedThe model that didn't exist, so you made it yourself
Last week, I wanted a small version of the prompt rewriter that ships with Qwen-Image 2.1. The official one is a 9B model that needs about 20 GB of memory and thinks for thousands of tokens before writing a single paragraph. On the Hub, I found only compressed copies of that same 9B model.
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